{"id":193,"date":"2007-05-31T06:57:22","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T11:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=193"},"modified":"2007-05-31T06:57:22","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T11:57:22","slug":"the-photographer-is-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=193","title":{"rendered":"The photographer is here!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years back, my daughter needed some photos for her modeling portfolio so we made an appointment with a professional photographer from New York city.<\/p>\n<p>The photographer would come into East Lansing for two days during the week and set up in a meeting room at a local hotel.\u00a0  Since my daughter&#8217;s photo shoot was in the morning, she rode into work with me and I took her out to the hotel.<\/p>\n<p>The intent was to drop her off before work, so we arrived at the hotel rather early.\u00a0  When we went into the lobby, I stopped at the main desk to ask directions.\u00a0  The desk clerk was very helpful and called for the manager.<\/p>\n<p>The manager was happy to see me and took us up to the mezzanine.\u00a0 He showed us where the restrooms were located and said that he would have some coffee and donuts delivered right away.<\/p>\n<p>Wow!\u00a0  What service.<\/p>\n<p>Then he showed me the rooms where the pictures would be taken.\u00a0  The rooms, of course, were empty since we were the first to arrive.\u00a0  Then, the manager said that if I needed any thing to let him know and that I could start setting up my equipment when ever I wanted. \u00a0  That is when it hit me.\u00a0  He thinks that I am the photographer.\u00a0  And I don&#8217;t even have a camera with me!\u00a0  Interesting.<\/p>\n<p>A year or so later, Kathy and I were guests at a wedding reception when a woman came up to me and asked if I would do the pictures for her daughter&#8217;s wedding. This request took me by surprise.\u00a0  Not only was I not taking pictures at the wedding reception, I didn&#8217;t even have a camera with me.\u00a0  And while there was a photographer at the reception, he didn&#8217;t look anything like me.\u00a0 I thanked the woman for asking me but I graciously declined saying that I wasn&#8217;t a photographer.<\/p>\n<p>Why do people think that I am the photographer when I don&#8217;t even have a camera with me?\u00a0 I guess that I must look like a photographer.\u00a0 I don&#8217;t know if that is good or bad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years back, my daughter needed some photos for her modeling portfolio so we made an appointment with a professional photographer from New York city. The photographer would come into East Lansing for two days during the week and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/?p=193\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p20gJN-37","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nedandkathyswift.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}